The Marin Shakespeare Company announced today the appointment of Raphael Massie as the company’s new Artistic Director. After 33 years at the company helm, co-founder Robert Currier will transition to Artistic Director Emeritus and continue to play a large part in the development of the Company’s indoor venue – The Center for Performing Arts, Education…
My guest on the “Theatre Thursday” segment of the February 3 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO was Libby Oberlin, who plays the role of Maria Callas in the upcoming Sonoma Arts Live production of Master Class. Click below to listen: **********
My guests on the February 2 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were director Aja Gianola-Norris and performer Jamin Jollo from the upcoming 6th Street Playhouse production of Hair. Click below to listen: ********** EDITOR’S NOTE – An incorrect website is given at the end of the segment. Go to http://www.6thstreetplayhouse.com for…
My “Theatre Thursday” guests on the January 27 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Steven David Martin, Artistic Director for Healdsburg’s Raven Players, and Gabriel Fraire, playwright, for a discussion about the Raven Players Scriptease program and the January 31, 2022 staged reading of John and Gabriel Fraire’s Cesar Died Today.…
Omicron and a Health Order put North Bay theatre on pause (again) North Bay theatre came back with a vengeance in mid-2021 when restrictions were lifted and theaters could once more welcome audiences inside. Almost every theatre company in the region returned to live production with solo shows, comedies, and the occasional musical. The New…
2021 was supposed to be the year that live theatre came roaring back, and it did… for a while. By the end of the year, that roar had been replaced by a hacking cough symptomatic of exposure to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Theatres once again began to cancel or postpone performances as casts…
As TV regularly demonstrates, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol can be adapted into just about any scenario. For theatre, just take the plot points and characters, plop them into a modern-day situation and locale, add some songs and – voila! – instant Christmas show! It’s a little more complicated than that, but that’s basically what…
Fans of ‘50s and ‘60s pop music and the all-male or all-female groups that sang it looking to take a break from the holiday hustle and bustle might consider heading to Sonoma for some respite. Sonoma Arts Live is presenting Plaid Tidings and Winter Wonderettes in “rep”, two jukebox musicals draped in holiday trimmings that…
If you’ve been enjoying the Christmas at Pemberley series this year (and all three productions are currently running in Northern California), you might want to avail yourself of the opportunity to hear the co-author of those shows (with Margot Melcon) live, in conversation with educator Mary Ellen Hunt. It’s part of the Friends of the…
My “Theatre Thursday” guests on the December 2 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Ivy Rose Miller and Missy Weaver for a discussion about the Main Stage West production of Late, a Cowboy Song. Click below to listen: ***********
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